Concept and Substance

Concept

Concept noun - An idea or statement about all of the members of a group or all the instances of a situation.

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Substance and concept are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Substance" instead a noun "Concept".

Substance noun - The basic elements from which something can be developed.

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Concept and substance are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Concept" instead a noun "Substance".

physical	physical concept	physical substance
clear	clear concept	clear substance
similar	similar concept	similar substance
related	related concept	related substance
Other adjectives: common, specific, alien, single, actual, real, little, new, universal, unusual, unknown, weird, strange, different, foreign.

Walking Swimsuit Scene: Many Divas photoshoots Mud Wrestling: Okay, they were wrestling in some other substance but her "Turkey Bowl match" with Jacqueline was the same concept.

Source: Wrestling / Ivory
In the Discworld novel Interesting Times, Cohen the Barbarian does this quite often — killing people that have said in substance: "I'd rather die than..." — because the barbarians' concept of honor is rather devoid of subtlety.

Source: Threat Backfire

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